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TroveHe met with the All Dulles Area Muslim Society today for a real talk session, and put out a statement I'll print in full:
Read MoreThe Smurfs movie comes to theaters this Friday, and to celebrate, we scoured Flickr to find images of the petite blue-skinned creatures during their 1980s glory days. Smurfmania was at its height from 1981-1990, when The Smurfs cartoon aired on television. Back then, the mushroom-dwellers cropped up everywhere—on cereal boxes, onesie pajamas, and lunchboxes. Wannabe Smurfs and Smurfettes demanded Smurf-themed birthday parties or blue-and-white Halloween costumes.
Read MoreThe Atlantic has weighed in again on the controversy over Mac McClelland’s reporting in Haiti, this time on the debate over whether the Mother Jones reporter had the permission of a Haitian rape victim to use the victim’s horrible experience as a vehicle for McClelland’s own story about suffering from PTSD.
Read MoreSorry, ladies and gentlemen, Gene Simmons and Shannon Tweed are officially off the market—well, maybe. The Kiss frontman got down on one leather-clad knee and proposed to his girlfriend of 28 years on the Season 7 finale of Gene Simmons: Family Jewels. The episode ends without a response from Tweed. The televised proposal comes on the heels of a tumultuous promotional tour where Tweed confronted Simmons over his infidelity, which means that the proposal scene was almost certainly shot long before the couple’s very public displays of rancor.
Responding to fans after the show aired, Simmons tweeted, “Shannon and I work on our relationship every day. One day at a time.” And Tweed tweeted, “We are taking it day by day. Stay tuned.”
DSK's accuser shares a surname with several other notable Guineans. Is "Diallo" the "Smith" of West Africa? http://slate.me/oQQody
How John Boehner is getting Republicans to unite behind his debt-ceiling plan. http://slate.me/qJdkQr
Herman Cain and the Muslims, via @DaveWeigel: http://slate.me/qqmhtw
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